The Advocate By Onikepo Braithwaite Onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com Should it Always be About Ethnicity and Religion? It is quite sad and unfortunate, that today, everything about governance in Nigeria has been reduced to ethnicity and religion. I feel quite disgusted and disappointed; it really shouldn’t be like this. In the past, the composition of government didn’t seem to matter. Or is it because, then, it was the Yorubas, and not the other major ethnic groups that appeared to be sidelined? For example, in 1979 – 1983, during the first term of the Second Republic, President Shehu Shagari was from Sokoto; Vice President Alex Ekwueme from Oko Town, now in Anambra; Senate President, Joseph Wayas, Obanliku, Cross River; Deputy Senate President, John Wash Pam, Plateau State; Spea...